ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,510, issued on July 1, was assigned to FRESENIUS KABI DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Bad Homburg, Germany).

"Prefilled syringe with pegfilgrastim having optimized dose and methods related thereto" was invented by Florence Roger (Mont-sur-Rolle, Switzerland), Fabien Vaudant (Valleiry, France), Thierry Rimlinger (L'Isle d'Abeau, France), Christian Ebert (Frankfurt, Germany), Rodrigue Chatton (Echichens, Switzerland), Alexander Degen (Bad Homburg, Germany), Kevin Reitz (Florstadt, Germany) and Torsten Brandenburger (Reichelsheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prefilled syringe and a method of filling a syringe with a pegfilgrastim solution...